Improvement in water-gates



PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM C. HOPWOOD, OF FILLMORE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,445, dated June 27, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. Horvvocn, of Fillmore, in the county ci' Putnam and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Water-Gate; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section.

This invention consists in the combination of a gate for Water-course fences with an iron rod stretched across .the stream, either in one piece or in as many different sections as may be necessary, said rod being properly fastened at its ends to the banks of the stream, and at as many intermediate points as may be expedient to posts or stones in the bed of the stream; the gate aforesaid being also combined with braces, which, when the Water is 10W, rest on the bottom ofthe stream and keep the gate upright.

Referring to the drawing, a a are the sections ofthe spanning-rod, the same being conn ected by eyes at its extremities, with staple-bolts b, which are driven into posts c set in the banks, or into large stones, or into trees, as may be most convenient, the sections a being connected at their adjacent ends by eyes d. e is a post, set in the bed of the stream, and having an eyebolt, b, driven into its top, with which eyebolt are connected the eyes d. ff are hinges, jointed to the sections a, and secured to the ends of the horizontal beam g of each section of the gate, to which beam the lower ends of the slats l1 are fastened. i are pieces of scantling parallel to the slats, secured to the ends ot' the beam g, to the outer ends of which scantlings are jointed the upper extremities of the braces j that keep the gate up right at low water. When the Water rises it carries downstream the lower ends ofthe braces j, so that the gate falls into the water and is not injured by drifting stui passing over it.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the spanning-rod a, sup porting-posts c e, beams g, hin ges f, slats h, scantlings i, and braces j, as specified.

WILLIAM C. HOPVOOD.

Witnesses:

GEORGE H. FREEMAN, JOHN W. RICE. 

